Sentences with phrase «declining coal power»

«From a climate and health perspective, the trend toward a declining coal power fleet is encouraging, but not happening fast enough,» said Ted Nace, director of CoalSwarm.

But natural gas is expected to replace not just declining coal power in the future, but also a significant portion of low - carbon nuclear power.

Not exact matches

Coal - fired power makes up the largest share of electricity generation in the U.S., although that share is expected to decline thanks mostly to the rise of natural gas (see the chart below).

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S. coal - fired power plants has been declining and coal use has dropped radically since 2007 — a trend that is expected to continue.

Also, if newer greener energy technologies can reasonably replace our baseline power needs from coal - fired power plants then coal demand will decline further.

However, coal demand can continue to decline if natural gas prices stay low for a very long time allowing further replacement of coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones.

While demand has declined, coal is still needed to meet America's power demand.

A sharp drop in US coal - fired power generation — and the resulting drop in steam coal production — played a more significant role in 2015, but met still accounted for 57 % of the revenue decline relative to 2011.

That said, whereas CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants in the U.S. have declined, greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands have doubled since the turn of the century and look set to double again by the end of this decade — the primary source of emissions growth for the entire country of Canada.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

The agency attributed the decline to a warm winter, slumping use of coal - fired electricity, and strong growth in renewable and hydroelectric power.

Stricter emissions requirements on coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States, she said.

Power plants burned coal that released sulfur into the atmosphere, but coal use has declined.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

The Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's most sweeping climate policy aiming to cut emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels, is another factor in the decline of the coal induPower Plan, the Obama administration's most sweeping climate policy aiming to cut emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels, is another factor in the decline of the coal indupower plants that burn fossil fuels, is another factor in the decline of the coal industry.

«China is building coal - fired power stations but it's also closing many of the older ones down, which is why its overall coal use is declining — the more significant point is it's now building the clean energy equivalent of one coal - fired power station every week, and will do for the next 15 years.»

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

Environmentalists will rejoice at this, but the trend is so swift that owners and operators of electric power systems are legitimately worrying about whether the decline of coal will undermine reliability of the electric grid and also make the nation too dependent on natural gas.

National Journal's Coral Davenport has a truly must - read story on the origins of the «War on Coal» narrative and how the industry has seen its power decline in recent years.

Much of the decline was a result of the US switching from its own coal supplies to shale gas for generating electricity at power stations.

(Arkansas recently acknowledged that due to its recent decline in coal use, it is already meeting its 2030 Clean Power Plan emission target.)

Efforts to shore up ailing coal plants could «slow down the rate of decline, but it won't stop it as long as the cost of wind and solar power continues to come down,» Hynes said.

Power sector CO2 emissions declined by 363 million metric tons between 2005 and 2013, due to a decline in coal's generation share and growing use of natural gas and renewables, but the CO2 emissions are projected to change only modestly from 2013 through 2040 in the 3 baseline cases used in this report.

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Power generation now accounts for 93 % of US coal consumption, as non-power commercial and industrial demand has declined.

The industry has shed jobs as coal power has declined as a share of U.S. electricity generation: from more than 50 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2010.

Use of coal for power generation will decline, he said.

As a result, UK windfarms generated more power than coal in 2016, even though wind output declined slightly compared to the very windy year in 2015.

Despite Donald Trump's best efforts, «coal's share of the power mix is declining, and wind and solar remain the fastest - growing US sources of electricity»

The future of the EPA's Clean Power Plan (CPP) now looks uncertain but even its abandonment will, at best, arrest the decline in coal - fired generation in the long term.

Nearly $ 1 trillion (# 700bn) is being invested in new coal - fired power plants worldwide despite the fact that the demand for electricity generated from coal has declined for two years in a row, shows a new report released today.

In Germany, coal demand declines even as nuclear power is progressively phased out, with coal use remaining highly sensitive to the relative prices of coal, natural gas and carbon dioxide (CO2).

There is an «irreversible decline» of coal power across the G7 countries, with the US and UK leading the way, finds new research by the non-profit environmental organisation E3G.

Combined with saturation of heavy industry growth, coal demand is forecast to decline through 2022, despite growth in coal conversion and in coal - power generation.

Meanwhile, U.S. coal production will continue to decline at least through the year 2016 due to the shuttering of numerous coal - fired power plants.

Chinese coal demand declined in 2016 — as it did in 2014 and 2015 — despite an increase in coal - power generation.

Even without the Clean Power Plan, coal's share of national electricity generation has been in steep decline for over a decade, dropping from 49 % in 2007 to 33 % in 2015, due largely to hydraulic fracturing, which has flooded the market with cheap, lower carbon natural gas.

Between 2007 and 2015, the amount of electricity generated at coal - fired power plants declined more than 30 percent.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that removing the Clean Power Plan would halt but not reverse coal's decline as a source of electricity in the U.S. during the next two decades.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its first look at expected power generation in 2019, and its conclusions are much the same as those it expects in 2018 — the use of natural gas to produce electricity will continue to rise, and the use of coal will continue to decline.

While coal is still the nation's dominant power source, reports suggest its consumption of coal hasn't grown since 2013, and may even have declined in 2015.

Competition between natural gas and coal for electric power generation drove price declines in the Appalachian and Powder River Basins (PRB), two key sources for thermal coal, through the summer.

BP expects U.S. energy production to increase by 39 percent by 2040; with natural gas production up by 65 percent, oil production up by 55 percent, and renewable energy up by 220 percent, more than offsetting declines of 48 percent in coal and 28 percent in nuclear power.

Record exports of both thermal and metallurgical coal partially offset declines in consumption in the power sector.

Smaller ports in the region, such as Cleveland, Ohio, have seen similar declines as Midwest shipments, predominately steam coal destined for Ontario, Canada, which have fallen sharply as a result of Canadian legislation affecting coal power plants in the province.

In our scenario guaranteeing profits to both coal and nuclear plants for 25 years, the amount of power generated by natural gas declines due to more coal and nuclear generation.

Coal currently provides nearly 60 percent of India's of total installed electricity generating capacity of 330GW, but the government projects it will decline substantially as solar power ramps up.

The fall in black coal generation is thought to be due to the general decline in power consumption in NSW combined with the rise in wind generation, especially in SA and Victoria.